DUB-REMOVE(1)

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💅 dub-remove(1) — the D Language Foundation's own lil' cache-cleaning queen 🎀

okay so bestie, real talk: you're looking at dub-remove(1), one of the many iconic pages from The D Language Foundation, and honestly? She's a short one. Sweet. To the point. A little dramatic removal moment. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dub-remove — she removes a cached package. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dub remove <package>[@<version-spec>] OPTIONS...

literally just point her at a package, optionally tell her which version you mean with a version spec, and vibe-check it out of existence 😭

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Removes a package that is cached on the local system.

no cap, that's the entire description. she's not gonna over-explain herself. the package is sitting there in your local cache, and now it's not. main character energy, honestly 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --version=VALUE — use the specified version/branch instead of the latest available match. and here's the fun part bestie: the remove command also accepts * here as a wildcard so you can nuke all versions of the package from the specified location 🔥 (yes, that means all of them. yes, that's the point.)
  • --force-remove — deprecated option that does nothing. respectfully, she's a ghost 👻 she does nothing. kept around for legacy reasons, not for you to rely on, fr fr.
  • -n, --non-interactive — don't enter interactive mode. she just goes and does the thing without asking you follow-up questions 🫶

🧚 COMMON OPTIONS

see dub(1) — the big sis page has all the shared stuff 💜

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • 0 — DUB succeeded 🎉 slay, she ate
  • 1 — usage errors, unknown command line flags 🙈 (you typed something weird)
  • 2 — package not found, package failed to load, miscellaneous error 😭 (she looked. it wasn't there. or something else went sideways.)

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • dub.sdl
  • dub.json

the two iconic recipe files. iykyk 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (c) 1999-2026 by The D Language Foundation

⭐ ONLINE DOCUMENTATION ⭐

http://code.dlang.org/docs/commandline

(yes that's the docs. go read them. obsessive behaviour encouraged 💖)

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

heads up bestie: --force-remove is deprecated and does nothing. don't build your whole workflow on it, okay? 🙈

and that's the page!! 🎀 brought to you by The D Language Foundation, dated 2026-08-16 — go forth and remove things, bestie, you've got this 💅✨

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